Why six million developers are creating big data and advanced analytics apps today

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2 million developers are working on IoT applications, increasing 34% since the last year.

Over 50% of the developers working on IoT applications are writing software that utilizes sensors in some capacity.

4m enterprise developers play decision-making roles when it comes to selecting organizational IT development resources. Another 5.2 million hold decision-making authority for selecting IT deployment resources.

4m developers (26% of all developers globally) are using the cloud as a development environment today

The APAC region leads the world with approximately 7.4m developers today, followed by EMEA with 7.2m, North America with 4.4m and Latin America with 1.9m.

These and many other fascinating insights are from the Evans Data Corporation Global Developer Population and Demographic Study 2016 (PDF, client access) published earlier this week. The methodology Evans Data has created to produce this report is the most comprehensive developed for aggregating, analysing and predicting developer populations globally. The study combines Evans Data’s proprietary global developer population modeling with the current results of their semi-annual global developer survey.

Key takeaways from the study include the following:

6m developers (29% of all developers globally) are involved in a big data and advanced analytics project today. An additional 25% of developers, or 5.3m, are going to begin big data and advanced analytics projects within the next six 13% or 2.6m of all developers globally are going to start big data and advanced analytics projects within the next 7 to 12 months. The following graphic provides an overview of the involvement of 21m developers in big data and advanced analytics projects today. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

4m developers (26% of all developers globally) are using the cloud as a development environment today. Developers creating new apps in the cloud had increased 375% since Evans began measuring developer participation in mobile development in 2009 when just slightly more than 1.2m developers were using the cloud as their development platform. 4.5m developers (21% of all global developers) plan on beginning app development on cloud platforms in the next six months, and 3.9m (18% of all global developers) plan on starting development on the cloud in 7 – 12 months. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

8m developers in APAC (24% of all developers in the region) are currently developing on cloud platforms. 29% of APAC developers are planning to start cloud-based development in six months, and 20% in 7 – 12 months. The following graphic compares the number of developers currently using the cloud as a development environment today and the number who plan to in the future. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

34% of all Commercial Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) globally today (1.8m developers) are using the cloud as a development environment. An additional 1.4m are planning to begin cloud development in the next six months. 28% of developers globally creating apps in the cloud are from custom system integrators (SI) and value-added resellers (VARs). 23% or approximately 1.2m are from enterprises. The following graphic compares the percent of developers by developer segment who are currently creating new apps in cloud environments. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

30% of developers (6.2m developers globally) are currently developing software for connected devices or the Internet of Things today, with an additional 26% planning to begin projects in 6 months. Evans Data found that this increased 34% over the last year. Also, 2.1m developers plan to begin development in this area within the next 7 to 12 months. The following graphic compares the number of developers globally by stage of development for creating software for connected devices or the Internet of Things. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

41% of global developers creating connected device and IoT software today are from 27% are from North America, 24% are from EMEA and 7% from Latin America. There are 6,072,048 developers currently working on connected device and IoT software today globally. The following graphic provides an overview of the distribution of developers creating connected device and IoT software by region today. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

34% of developers actively creating software for connected devices or the Internet of Things work for custom System Integrators (SI) and VARs today. ISVs are the next largest segment of developers working on IoT projects (30%) followed by enterprises (21%). The following graphic provides an overview of the global base of developers creating software for connected devices and IoT. Evans Data found there are 6.1m developers currently creating apps and solutions in this area alone. Please click on the image to expand for easier viewing.

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